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Critic’s Choice
If it’s January, then it must be time for the Cleveland Orchestra’s annual Miami residency. Last season the Cleveland programs were overwhelmingly safe and conservative, heavy on crowd-pleasing warhorses.…
Wed Jan 25, 2012
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Critic’s Choice
Florida Grand Opera will serve up a rarely heard Puccini opera beginning Saturday night at the Arsht Center in Miami, showing another side of a composer known to audiences through only…
Wed Jan 18, 2012
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Seraphic Fire celebrates its 10th anniversary this week with a series of concerts of music by young composers, as well as the 18th-century work that gave the ensemble its…
Wed Jan 11, 2012
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Musicians union plans to leaflet orchestra’s Broward Center concert
Musicians’ union members plan to distribute leaflets at a concert Friday night in Fort Lauderdale of the South Florida Symphony to protest the struggling orchestra’s failure to pay musicians for…
Fri Dec 02, 2011
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Villella to retire from Miami City Ballet in 2013
Edward Villella, Miami City Ballet’s founding artistic director, has announced that he will retire from the company following the 2012-2013 season.
“My plan is to build a bridge upon…
Fri Sep 23, 2011
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Seraphic Fire’s fleet Brahms Requiem sacrifices something in expressive depth
For two weeks, a group of aspiring singers drilled with the professionals of the Miami choir Seraphic Fire at a choral boot camp of sorts at the University of South…
Mon Jun 06, 2011
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Thibaudet brings poetry and bravura to Liszt program at the Broward Center
It was an evening of thunder and lightning at the keyboard Monday at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, as the French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performed a recital devoted…
Tue Feb 08, 2011
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A busy Philippe Entremont brings German orchestra to Florida
Philippe Entremont has been a frequent visitor to South Florida. This week the 77-year-old French-born pianist-conductor returns to West Palm Beach and Miami with the Deutsche State Philharmonic, an 88-member…
Mon Feb 07, 2011
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Pianist Barnes brings audacious program to FIU
A fascinating and audacious recital by pianist Paul Barnes drew only about fifteen audience members to Florida International University’s Wertheim Concert Hall Sunday afternoon.
A professor at the University of…
Mon Jan 17, 2011
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Ailing tenor misses two “Turandot” performances
Due to a heavy persistent cold, tenor Frank Porretta missed the last two performances of Puccini’s Turandot, currently being presented by Florida Grand Opera. Porretta was replaced by Jeffrey Springer…
Tue Nov 23, 2010
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Miami City Ballet opens 25th season in celebratory style
The twenty-fifth anniversary season of Miami City Ballet opened Friday night at the Arsht Center with a gala program of three contrasted ballets by two of the twentieth century’s master…
Sat Oct 16, 2010
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Monteverdi’s Vespers to close Seraphic Fire season
Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 holds a unique place of importance for the choir Seraphic Fire, which performs it this week at four South Florida churches.
The composer’s ambitious sacred work,…
Tue May 11, 2010
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Buffalo Philharmonic delivers rich-toned performances of Russian favorites
A nearly full house packed the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale Friday night for a program of tried-and-true Russian favorites by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under music director…
Sat Mar 13, 2010
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Her famous voice still in admirable shape, Kiri charms audience at the Broward Center
It may be difficult for many opera fans to accept the fact that Kiri Te Kanawa has just turned 66. The glamorous soprano, who performed Tuesday night…
Wed Mar 10, 2010
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Itin opens Miami Piano Festival with explosive wartime Prokofiev
Ilya Itin is well known to Miami audiences, having appeared at the Miami International Piano Festival many times. The Russian-born pianist is a powerhouse musician, having garnered top honors…
Mon Mar 08, 2010
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19-year-old captures top prize at National Chopin Competition
The competition was grueling, certainly for the audience, which heard five performances of Chopin’s Piano Concerto in E Minor over the course of two days.
In the end, the jury…
Sun Feb 28, 2010
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Koh shines in Adams’ Violin Concerto with New World Symphony
As Super Bowl madness gripped South Florida, it might still be possible to forget all that and escape into Miami Beach’s Lincoln Theatre Friday evening for a concert…
Sat Feb 06, 2010
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Leonard Slatkin seems the right conductor at the right time to lead the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
When Leonard Slatkin became music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the winter of 2008, he soon made a change in the life of Haden McKay.…
Wed Feb 03, 2010
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Seraphic Fire to launch new Christmas series tonight
When you think of a Christmas concert, what may come to mind is an evening that starts with We Wish You a Merry Christmas, continues with Jingle Bells and…
Thu Dec 10, 2009
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New Frost program will put a stamp on ensemble musicianship
A unique scholarship program for exceptional students will be set up at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, thanks to a donation from two longtime benefactors.
E. Roe…
Thu May 07, 2009
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